Panel: Restoring and Reusing Kirkbride’s Mental Health Hospitals

A Panel hosted by the National Building Museum

Monica Pellegrino-Faix, executive director, The Richardson Olmsted Complex, Nathaniel C. Guest, Esq., executive director, Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust, and Andrea Janusz, RA, Lord, Aeck & Sargent, discuss the redevelopment efforts at St. Elizabeths, Buffalo State Asylum, and Greystone Park, to illustrate how these sites are inspiring a new understanding of the influence and role of historic preservation of Kirkbride-style mental health hospitals. This program complements the National Building Museum’s exhibition Architecture of an Asylum: St. Elizabeths 1852-2017